159 stories by "Kelly McCorkendale"
Assuming love and sex are an intertwined riddle to be solved and you want an answer to the mystery "you're not going to get it here. If you want to walk away deep in thought, contemplating t…
The title, New Guidelines for Peaceful Times, sounds like a satirical take on a dystopian world. But it's not. It's a much more earnest, honest, and delicate look at how war"the internal …
Synetic's Sleepy Hollow takes no cues from Disney’s version or even the 1999 remake by Tim Burton, which saw the tale go darker and deeper. It is far better"a richer, more provoc…
Wow. Just wow. Born Yesterday, a Tony-award winning play written in 1946 by Garson Kanin, feels likes a premonition come to fruition. Shortly after World War II, tycoon Harry Brock (Edwar…
We often imagine Lincoln to have been an amiable, principled man, worn down by war and illness. Perhaps his own and, certainly, that of his sons and wife. Which is why Brandon McCoy's Franci…
Sometimes it is just easiest to say it up front as clearly as possible: I loved The Ice Child"an old-school-esque "once upon a time" fairy tale about very real-world, right now issues that t…
Second City is back at it again with Second City's Generation Gap…or How Many Millennials Does it Take to Teach a Baby Boomer to Text Generation X?, now invading the Kennedy Center to h…
It's a funny title, isn't it? Dancing in My Cockroach Killers. Yet, profoundly telling. About stereotypes. About other cultures. About "our" opinions of Latinos. Yet, this is not a show abou…
Charlotte's Web, the beloved children's book by E.B. White, is an emotionally taut tale that plays well with music by Charles Strause, who’s next musical was Annie. Here, Creative Caul…
As it opens, The Speed Twins makes no bones about were you are: Dyke Heaven! A purgatory of sorts, set up like a seedy bar reminiscent of London's now shuttered Gateways Club, where a dru…
Alice in Wonderland is so well known that it's easy to forget the original two books"Alice's Adventure in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking-Glass"were written in 1865 in Queen Victori…
In its latest offering, the In Series has pulled a twisty, two-for-one punch with aplomb, presenting two Cuban Zarzuelas, based on the same novel, as Act I and Act II in a single show. It's …
Much like its storied source material, (Frank L. Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz), The Wiz is an American cultural institution. Seven Tony Awards in 1975. Numerous revivals. A 1978 film ad…
This Little Light, like so many Venus Theatre productions, is a gem that radiates the very joy it dares us to find in ourselves, and each other, when we fear we've lost it most. Â If you …
Light Years celebrates the cornerstone to all human relationships, the first and most defining: child and parent. In this case, the focus is Robbie Schaefer and his father Konnie (Bobby S…
Adventure Theatre MTC's Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day is a laugh-out-loud journey through the worst calamities of childhood, and appealing to kids and adults al…
Waxing West is a rich, moving story of immigration, culture clash, and revolution"the common political kind and a deeper, internal, personal kind. A little over a decade after the Romanian R…
Life: it's not about good guys or bad guys. It's about good choices and bad choices. And, Felonious Munk, a bearded comedian out of Chicago courtesy of Second City, is a solid, candid guy wh…
Sometime in the not too distant past, an ornate street lamp, that you could easily imagine encircled by fog, glows at a dingy train depot early morning. Byron Jones, looking dapper in a suit…
In a time in American history where gun control, collusion, corporate taxes, labor issues, immigration, war, and threats of violence dominate the daily news, Assassins feels chillingly relev…
The Effect is a beautiful rumination on what love is"a combination of naturally occurring chemicals with which the brain floods the body. Or something altogether different. Something control…
Caravanning to the stars and beyond"to a planet of flowers somewhere at the edge of the universe"is a nice coda to a long week. Even if it is a journey designed for kids. Music, after all, i…
For I Killed My Mother, you enter Spooky Action Theater through the bowels of a church, winding through the basement where performers are stationed"singing, strumming guitar, watching you wa…
It's never more apparent how salacious the bard is than when watching The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), a ridiculously wonderful semi-improvised comedy that parodies, red…
Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train"a disturbing, dark dramedy by the Pulitzer-prize winning Stephen Adly Guirgis and first performed in 2000"places incarceration and morality side by side and asks y…
